Just when we thought we couldn’t sink any lower, we find ourselves plumbing new depths in the toxic cesspool of political discourse that Hong Kong is floundering in.

On the day that four out of nine leaders and key activists convicted on public nuisance charges over the 2014 Occupy protests were jailed for up to 16 months, sentencing for one of the most prominent faces among them had to be deferred.

That was because Tanya Chan’s lawyer dropped a bombshell in court that the veteran opposition legislator was suffering from a life-threatening brain tumour and would have to undergo surgery soon.

The revelation prompted some eye-rolling among her critics, with two members of the pro-establishment camp, lawmaker Steven Ho Chun-yin and local delegate to the national parliament Stanley Ng Chau-pei, going a step further to post vile messages on Facebook insinuating that Chan’s illness was a deliberate ploy to get her off the hook.

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